“Facts on the Table” – Wien Energie: Mattle locates “secret trade”

The situation on the European electricity market affects all energy suppliers and that is precisely why it is “incomprehensible to Mattle that Wien Energie has a liquidity requirement of several billion euros practically overnight”.

Full clarification required
“A circumstance that even the city of Vienna can no longer sweep under the rug and has turned to the federal government,” Mattle said. Vienna’s demands on the federal government now change almost hourly, but the federal capital has not provided an intelligible explanation as to why it could come to this on its own. “It is still not clear which stock market instruments Wien Energie uses and whether the energy supplier has made a blunder,” criticized the governor candidate who is in the state election campaign.

In Tyrol, they have “invested billions in a sustainable energy future” and will now “certainly not look lightly at how billions are put into other, less crisis-resistant energy suppliers without knowing the scale of the scandal”. “All the facts must be on the table, because the people of Vienna, but also the rest of the federal states, expect complete clarification,” said the Tyrolean ÖVP chairman.

FPÖ speaks of ‘scandal society’
Meanwhile, the Tyrolean FPÖ also spoke out in favor of the case. Provincial party chairman Markus Abwerzger spoke out against the fact that “Tyrolean taxpayers’ money was used to save the red Viennese scandal company Wien Energie GmbH”.

Abwerzger announced a “series of investigations” in the Tyrolean state parliament. “Regardless of who will be in government in the future, we want to answer whether Tyrolean taxpayers’ money, or even Tiwag money, has been used for the rescue attempt of Wien Energie, because it can’t be like that,” the FPÖ said. leader, who himself over the “degree of mismanagement in the federal capital”.